Blogs by Rick Lowe

Wednesday, December 07, 2016

by Rick Lowe Seven brave MP's exercised their Constitutional right today and "overthrew" the leader of the FNM in Parliament. There is clearly a deep division between Dr. Minnis and the majority of FNM MP's. In hindsight it must be much deeper than one might surmise given the gravity of...
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by Rick Lowe I know it’s BPL now, but they’re only a management company that reports to the Government for their instructions. The Prime Minister of the government that hired them at great cost to an already bankrupt power company says he’s distressed by the latest blackouts.” He’s so caring....
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Monday, December 05, 2016

“As leaders of the Institute of Economic Affairs, or IEA, in London for many years, Classical Liberals Ralph Harris and Arthur Seldon pioneered the thoughtful application of free-market principles and greatly influenced public policy and economic thought throughout the world.” “From the mid 1950s to the late 1980s, Ralph Harris...
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Sunday, December 04, 2016

According to the publisher’s web site, Grant’s Town Press, Sir Orville has a book scheduled for release tomorrow. The book, entitled “What Manner Of Man Is This”, “is a unique and incisive look at an important yet largely ignored period of the life of the Prince of Wales who was...
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Saturday, December 03, 2016

Head on down and grab a pint and listen to some good live music tonight! "Matthew Pinder will be jammin' the tunes from 8:00pm till' 11:00pm! "The Jumbo Jenga will be climbing and the delicious eats will be hot -wash it all down with a cold craft brew, fresh off...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2016

by Rick Lowe CEO of the Bahamas Chamber of Commerce is quoted in Monday’s Tribune Business as saying his office needs a very close relationship with the Government and because they are not “bashing” them it does not mean they are not holding them accountable. Read more here… Informing the...
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Sunday, November 27, 2016

by Rick Lowe As many world leaders and progressives pay tribute to Fidel Castro upon his death, it seems odd that they brush off comments about lives he has taken, or had taken, or people imprisoned because they are gay or disagreed with his policies and oh so many more...
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Saturday, November 26, 2016

One of the requests from We March Bahamas relates to Crown Land requests and back in the early 1970’s the Abaco Independence Movement came up with a solution to end the political gamesmanship in this regard. In the publication, Forgotten Dreams: A people’s desire to chart their own course in...
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Thursday, November 24, 2016

Image: Bahamasb2b by Rick Lowe Gowon Bowe, Chairman of the Bahamas Chamber of Commerce, has reportedly stated that the government's new tax compliance initiative would "assist in increasing annual revenue, decreasing annual deficits and generating annual surpluses." Cast your mind back to 2014 and very similar, if not the same...
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Tuesday, November 22, 2016

The Left has done far more than the Right to set back progress. John Tierney Autumn 2016 Technology and Innovation Politics and law "My liberal friends sometimes ask me why I don’t devote more of my science journalism to the sins of the Right. It’s fine to expose pseudoscience on...
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